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Hyperobject Industries @hyperobjectind.bsky.social · 9h

“‘The Chair Company,’ the latest hilarious and more than a little horrifying vision from the comedic maniac that is Tim Robinson, which is also his most bonkers, brilliant work yet, is not only about chairs.”

This Sunday on HBO.

Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 1d

THE CHAIR COMPANY: Tim Robinson makes another hilarious, rather horrifying series with his expressive acting rivaling the best work of Jim Carrey. It's a show as astute as it is anarchic, proving to be the chaotic conspiracy story for our time 📺

My review: www.thewrap.com/the-chair-co...

Tim Robinson holding up a phone to his ear while pointing at it with a perplexed expression on his face in a still from THE CHAIR COMPANY.

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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 1d

Fully Tim Robinson-pilled these days so of COURSE I'm looking forward to his new HBO show, The Chair Company, being appt TV on Sunday nites.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 17h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 18h

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 10, 2025 ~ Joining the party.

"We have now seen three of the five worst harvests on record this decade... This is what farming with climate change looks like, as extreme weather wrecks harvests..."

www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

England sees second worst harvest on record, analysis shows

Provisional Government data suggests a much worse harvest than experts had so far predicted.

www.independent.co.uk

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Lmaoooo. Major move. Were not even 5 minutes into this thing and she trots out the corpse of Hillary, Tony and Mike Pompeo to talk about something all 3 of them have already fucked up on their own.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 1d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 1d

The loss of mainstream advertising as a viable revenue stream means we need to fund journalism ourselves. There is nobody else to do it.

David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

If you're complaining about independent media asking you to pitch in as a paying subscriber, I can only assume you are happy with "free" billionaire-owned corporate media monetizing your attention, selling you to advertisers, and immersing you in oligarchs' self-serving content.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

Nooooo. Lmaoooo. Cuts like a fucking knife.

Every time I see shit like this I realize they're gonna lose and we're gonna win.

TresTiffany 🎃 @trestiffany.bsky.social · 2d

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 2d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Hyperobject Industries @hyperobjectind.bsky.social · 2d

You can’t even sell out to murderous regimes anymore without everyone getting their knickers in a twist.

Poor Bill.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Bill Burr Fires Back at Critics of His Riyadh Comedy Festival Appearance: “Sanctimonious C***s”

The veteran comedy superstar “doesn’t give a f***” what anyone thinks of his recent trip to Saudi Arabia: “If it affects my career, I've been to LAX enough in my life, I'll f***ing sit home for a litt...

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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The TV Cave @thetvcave.bsky.social · 22d

Tim Robinson is back and spiraling into chaos in HBO’s The Chair Company! One workplace meltdown turns into a full-blown criminal conspiracy. Weird, wild, and way too relatable. Premieres Oct 12 on HBO. Watch the trailer now — trust no chair. 🪑👀 #TheChairCompany #HBO #tvsky

Tim Robinson Goes Full Conspiracy Theorist in HBO’s Bonkers New Comedy ‘The Chair Company’ WATCH Trailer

If you've ever watched Tim Robinson spiral into chaos over something incredibly minor, you're in for a treat. HBO just dropped the first trailer for The Chair Company and it’s as gloriously absurd as ...

www.thetvcave.com

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 3d

1950’s style clip art of a woman winking. Written beneath: Only dickheads and fascists use A.I.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 3d

it takes a windmill 27.7 hours to generate one transgender athlete

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 4d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 4d

"The alleged abuses included sleep and medication deprivation, beatings, having automatic rifles pointed at their heads, dogs set upon them, having to sleep on the floor, being subjected to insults & made to watch footage of the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Gaza flotilla members allege beatings and insults in Israeli detention

Some of those held say guns were pointed at them, they were threatened with dogs and deprived of sleep

www.theguardian.com

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 4d

so if i'm doing the math right, David Ellison paid about $890 per paying subscriber to The Free Press

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Ben Travers @bentravers.bsky.social · Sep 8

“None of this is thought out,” Robinson tells Vulture. “It’s not planned. It’s not on purpose.”

"The Chair Company" premieres Sunday, October 12 at 10pm ET. First look --> www.vulture.com/article/tim-...

Still from HBO's 'The Chair Company' starring Tim Robinson, showing him holding a phone up to his ear, looking excited

Still from HBO's 'The Chair Company' starring Tim Robinson, showing him standing in an empty room with white walls shouting into a phone

Still from HBO's 'The Chair Company' starring Tim Robinson, showing him struggling to take a selfie with his family, including Lake Bell

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Hyperobject Industries @hyperobjectind.bsky.social · 5d

Fucking psycho

Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 6d

Van Jones repeats “dead Gaza baby” as a punch line. New York Times columnistThomas Friedman laughs along.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...